LonelyCandidate15: Tonight’s Debate Features Questions Via YouTube
Tonight marks YouTube’s entry into the political spotlight. CNN and YouTube are sponsoring a debate for the Democratic presidential candidates this evening with all of the questions coming from YouTube users via homemade video.
The candidates will be in Charleston, SC where a giant video screen will project whatever two or three dozen videos CNN selects from the more than 2,000 online videos submitted to YouTube.
The debate will be broadcast on CNN starting at 7 p.m. Eastern time and one likes to think that those of us without cable will able to catch it on YouTube at some point.
All the candidates have expressed what might be called a “keen” interest in how this here webernets is changing the political and election process in this country, but it remains to be seen how well they do fielding questions that aren’t softball lobs from a moderator. Will the people’s hard hitting questions cause some real differences to emerge, or will CNN manage to water this down to the same banal feather fluffing of other debates?
The Republican candidates will have their turn come Sept 17th.
